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For many people, the word vaccine is synonymous with immunity. While the flu shot has a lower efficacy against infection, people vaccinated against diseases like polio or measles can get exposed to those viruses and be fairly certain they won’t get sick. So when a vaccine was developed for COVID-19, many people hurried to get it, and hurried back for a booster when they became available. But some of them have become skeptical about the shot in recent months as more and more vaccinated people report infections, sometimes repeatedly.Dr. Aalok Khole, an infectious disease expert at Cheshire Medical Center in...

WHO member states rallied around the U.N. health agency — even as they urged a look into its coordination of the global response to the coronavirus. World leaders like the presidents of the European Commission and Colombia beamed in by video conference, hours after Trump made public his letter sent Monday to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus blasting “repeated missteps” of the agency as “very costly for the world.” The European Union, the resolution’s chief architect, urged countries to support WHO in the wake of Trump’s continued attacks. European Commission spokeswoman Virginie Battu-Henriksson said now wasn’t “the time for finger-pointing...

Schiavo Videotape Misleading, Experts Say Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:06 PM GMT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The videotape that runs endlessly on television stations around the world shows an apparently smiling Terri Schiavo being caressed by her mother's loving hand. She seems to look deeply, even lovingly, into the off-camera eyes of her mother. Schiavo's parents and their supporters, including doctors in Congress, have used the tape as evidence the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman is at least occasionally aware of her surroundings and might even be revived from her condition. They are fighting to get her feeding tube reinserted against the wishes...

<p>Moscow - Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, has bragged that the terrorist group bought suitcase nuclear bombs from former Soviet nuclear scientists in Moscow and Central Asia, but experts on Russia's nuclear program dismiss the statements, saying Osama bin Laden's deputy is bluffing.</p>